We do a lot of testing on Pentaho jobs, but each time we have to wait for 1 minute 40 seconds before anything happens. The cause must be Karaf because of this output message of Kitchen:
11:55:58,432 ERROR [KarafLifecycleListener] The Kettle Karaf Lifecycle Listener
failed to execute properly after waiting for 100 seconds.
Releasing lifecycle hold, but some services may be unavailable.
Some people suggested to add a line to kettle.properties in your home dir, or in folder .pentaho or .kettle like below, but this had no effect:
KITCHEN_KARAF_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=20
The other approach would be to give Karaf something to listen to so that it will stop waiting any further, but I could not find info on this.
How do we avoid that 100 seconds of waiting?
If you don't need Karaf, you can remove these files and folder:
\classes\kettle-lifecycle-listeners.xml
\classes\kettle-registry-extensions.xml
\lib\org.apache.karaf.*.jar
\system\karaf